The coast guard said one foreign woman was injured and was being transported to a local hospital.

Video footage shows beach-goers running in panic as part of a cliff peels off the rock wall at the end of Navagio beach, tumbling to the sand. O'Connell estimates there are around 400 to 500 people in the area when the rockfall occurred and around a dozen tourist boats were out in the bay.

An air and sea search was conducted as a precaution in case there was anyone trapped under the rocks.